Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

11-18-2018

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Source Publication

Journal of Drug Issues

Source ISSN

0022-0426

Abstract

There is substantial evidence of an ecological association between off-premise alcohol outlets and violence. We know less, however, about how specific beverage types that are sold in the outlets might explain the difference in violence rates across different alcohol outlets. Data on alcohol beverage types were collected for all off-premise alcohol outlets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, using a systematic social observation instrument. Spatially lagged regression models were estimated to determine whether the variation in alcohol beverage types is related to robbery density net of important neighborhood predictors of crime rates. Availability of all alcohol beverage types (beer, wine, spirits, premixed, single beer, single spirits, single premixed) was positively associated with the density of robberies, net of neighborhood characteristics. Reducing alcohol beverages, regardless of the beverage type, sold at off-premise alcohol outlets may reduce violence in communities.

Comments

Accepted version. Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 49, No. 1 (November 18, 2018): 183-200. DOI. © 2018 The Author(s). Used with permission.

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